Empty words

Death:"Empty words", (fra albummet "Symbolic", 1995):

Ashes and promises share a bond
Through the winds of change
Words are blown away
When visions that should be
Are tattoed in your mind
The power to let go
Is sometimes hard to find

The answer cannot be found
In the writing of others
Or the words of a trained mind
In a precious world of memories
We find ourselves confined

Claws so razor sharp
Ripping at the spirit

Chorus:
Promises a potential to hurt
Is anything real?
When forever is to be until
Deep inside, in the world of empty words...
No escape from those haunting
Empty words...

Do you ever feel it?
A craving that is so strong
To by thought rewind in order to find

Expectations that shined through the doubt
That soon would turn into the price
Of what a word will be worth
When tomorrow comes
To be and we are left
Standing on our own
And seeing what is real...

The answer cannot be found
In the writing of others
Or the words of a trained mind
In a precious world of memories
We find ourselves confined

Claws so razor sharp
Ripping at the spirit

Repeat chorus

(tekst: Chuck Schuldiner)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OZqmUS6uGA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIUEkZ0jU5E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=474qf-frcG8

(Det er egentlig lidt underligt at tænke på, at en så tilsyneladende fredsomlig fyr som Chuck Schuldiner havde denne snerrende småuhyggelige kraftfulde vokal, som virkelig formidler frustration/desperation....Men man skal jo ikke altid skue hunden på hårene :-) Jeg sad i går aftes i køkkenet og lyttede til "Symbolic" for gud-ved-hvilken-gang, og som sædvanlig, da jeg nåede til track nr. 3 "Empty words", blev min opmærksomhed ekstra skærpet....Chuck´s vokal-arbejde på "Empty words" er Chuck, når han var på sit højeste :-)).